Laurent Lantieri

{{Short description|French plastic surgeon}}

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Laurent Lantieri is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4511813&page=1 |title=World's First Full Face Transplant Hailed |date=25 March 2008|accessdate=16 June 2009|last=Watt |first=Nick |publisher=ABC News}} second{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/23/wface123.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325061807/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/23/wface123.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 March 2008 |title=Man has first full-face transplant |date=25 March 2008|accessdate=16 June 2009|last=Franklin |first=Katie|publisher=The Telegraph}} and third{{cite news|title=French claim full face transplant|first=Clare|last=Murphy|date=7 April 2009|accessdate=16 June 2009|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7987746.stm}} full face transplants. He was the first person to do a second face transplant on the same patient in 2018.{{cite web |title=The man with three faces |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2018/04/17/man-three-faces-orig.cnn |website=www.cnn.com |publisher=cable news network |accessdate=24 June 2019}}